Bloodstock doesn’t sound like the place where any normal person would like to spend their weekend, but for the more interesting souls, these four days form the basis of the premium heavy metal in the UK. If you like fully grown men bumming each other over and over in the middle of a field in full view of everybody, Bloodstock is the place for you. We caught a bunch of bands performing across the weekend, and this is what we thought of them:

More bands have been added to this year’s already great Bloodstock Open Air Festival, including grindcore supergroup Lock Up and Taiwanese metal outfit Chthonic. All freshly announced additions to the bill are as follows: